FACTBOX-Netanyanu's coalition options

Netanyahu, head of the right-wing Likud party alreadyaligned in a single bloc with the ultranationalist YisraelBeitenu group, has said he hopes to put together a broadmajority in the 120-member Israeli parliament.

The exit polls indicated he already has enough support fromright-wing and religious parties to form a narrow governingcoalition controlling 61 seats in the legislature. But someaides have said he may explore a broader opening to the centre.

Following is a breakdown of the types of government he couldpursue in coalition negotiations likely to focus on key issuessuch as possible confrontation with Iran over its nuclearprogramme, peace with the Palestinians and the economy.

That majority could grow to 102 if the centre-left LabourParty, with a projected 17 seats and former foreign ministerTzipi Livni's Hatnuah party, with 7, also opt to join aNetanyahu coalition.

The polls showed centrist and left-wing parties winning 50parliamentary seats. With the support of eight legislators fromArab parties, which have never agreed to join an Israeligovernment, a centrist bloc could control 58 seats, still shortof a majority.

In a highly unlikely scenario, Shas, an ultra-Orthodox partythat has traditionally been a kingpin in Israelicoalition-building, could opt to join with the centrists, for agovernment of 62 legislators.

But Shas and centrist and left-wing parties have long beenat odds over key issues such as military draft exemptions forJewish seminary students and the size of state stipends forreligious institutions.